{"id":1615,"date":"2010-08-18T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2010-08-18T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:48:31","slug":"vimeo-releases-universal-web-video-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/18\/vimeo-releases-universal-web-video-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo Releases Universal Web Video Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the debate between Flash and HTML5 video, for the typical web publisher the best solution lies in the middle; a hybrid player that can play both types of videos. \u00a0It&#8217;s not exactly the simplest trick to pull off, but popular video sharing site Vimeo has just added such a player. \u00a0And they&#8217;re calling in the <strong>Universal Player<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Universal Player automatically detects what device a viewer is using to watch a video&#8230;whether it be a desktop computer, an Android phone, an iPhone, an iPad or another device. \u00a0Then it intelligently serves up the proper video and player for that device. \u00a0To user&#8217;s of Vimeo it&#8217;s seamless&#8230;you copy and paste embed code like you always have (and the embed code does all the work behind the scenes). \u00a0It&#8217;s expected that YouTube will soon offer a similar type player.<\/p>\n<p>Also included with the Universal Player is a new feature called <strong>Watch Later<\/strong>, which allows viewers to click a button and queue the video so they can watch it later&#8230;kind of like a bookmark for videos. \u00a0For a full run-down of the Universal Player, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/blog:334\" target=\"_blank\">check out Vimeo&#8217;s blog here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the debate between Flash and HTML5 video, for the typical web publisher the best solution lies in the middle; a hybrid player that can play both types of videos. \u00a0It&#8217;s not exactly the simplest trick to pull off, but popular video sharing site Vimeo has just added such a player. \u00a0And they&#8217;re calling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[648,649],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}